“[Cornett] then described his anger at illegal immigration, telling the detective that he was ‘pissed’ about undocumented migrants receiving welfare funds, phones and health insurance, and that he had ‘driven around before with the same thought,'” court documents state. “[He] later asked the detective whether he could be ‘charged for [his] thoughts,’ and went on to explain that he fantasized about flying an Apache helicopter gunship to the border and firing on undocumented migrants traveling into the United States in order ‘to deter’ other undocumented migrants from attempting to cross the border.”
Cornett’s housemates also told detectives that he was “kind of obsessed” with cable news stories about undocumented immigrants entering the United States.
Notably, neither victim was identified as an undocumented immigrant within court documents.
Another Fox News / GOP success story!
I think the trial of Mo Chara started yesterday…
[ETA] In fact…
OMG…
(at the bottom it says “Mo Chara” but it was obscured…)
At the point where one Brinks truck can HOLD a hundred million dollars’ worth of stuff, in a mere 24 bags no less, we need to fully embrace the knowledge that there are literally billions more of us than the 0.01% holding the rest of the world hostage.
If it was 24 bags of groceries it’d be worth that much…
(excerpt) And it should haunt the hell out of every one of us. And it should force every one of us to ask: If the state can claim your body when you’re pregnant, even after death, what part of you is really free?
She was Black. Racists won’t care and, just as carelessly, will believe that they wouldn’t be treated as Adriana was. On that they are probably correct—for now.
This is the part where I’m supposed to say I hope Douglas does not get harmed in prison. There it is.